Religion and the Political Imagination in a Changing South Africa
Author | : Eve Mullen, Gordon Mitchell |
Publisher | : Waxmann Verlag |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Religion and politics |
ISBN | : 9783830961482 |
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Author | : Eve Mullen, Gordon Mitchell |
Publisher | : Waxmann Verlag |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Religion and politics |
ISBN | : 9783830961482 |
Author | : Abdulkader Tayob, Wolfram Weisse, David Chidester |
Publisher | : Waxmann Verlag |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Religion and politics |
ISBN | : 9783830963288 |
What is the role of religion in society? In the wake of September 11, public intellectuals provided easy answers. According to some, religion was the problem, others commented, religion was the solution. Generally, public debate about the force of religion in society has been organized by either/or propositions. Religion is a force for either freedom or bondage, for either peace or war, for either mutual recognition or antagonistic polarization. Analysis of religion and social change has also tended to be framed in terms of oppositions that inform research agendas and public policy. In this book, authors from South Africa, the United States of America, the Netherlands, and Germany test these oppositions.
Author | : Abdulkader Tayob |
Publisher | : Waxmann Verlag Gmbh |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion and politics |
ISBN | : 9783830913283 |
What is the role of religion in society? In the wake of September 11, public intellectuals provided easy answers. According to some, religion was the problem, others commented, religion was the solution. Generally, public debate about the force of religion in society has been organized by either/or propositions. Religion is a force for either freedom or bondage, for either peace or war, for either mutual recognition or antagonistic polarization. Analysis of religion and social change has also tended to be framed in terms of oppositions that inform research agendas and public policy. In this book, authors from South Africa, the United States of America, the Netherlands, and Germany test these oppositions.
Author | : James Walters |
Publisher | : Gingko Library |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2018-12-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1909942235 |
Market globalization, technology, climate change, and postcolonial political forces are together forging a new, more modern world. However, caught up in the mix are some powerful religious narratives that are galvanizing peoples and reimagining – and sometimes stifling – the political and social order. Some are repressive, fundamentalist imaginations, such as the so-called Islamic Caliphate. Others could be described as post-religious, such as the evolution of universal human rights out of the European Christian tradition. But the question of the compatibility of these religious worldviews, particularly those that have emerged out of the Abrahamic faith traditions, is perhaps the most pressing issue in global stability today. What scope for dialogue is there between the Jewish, Muslim, and Christian ways of imagining the future? How can we engage with these multiple imaginations to create a shared and peaceful global society? Religious Imaginations is an interdisciplinary volume of both new and well-known scholars exploring how religious narratives interact with the contemporary geopolitical climate.
Author | : John H.A. Dyck |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2010-06-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1136953868 |
Politics and the Religious Imagination is the product of a group of interdisciplinary scholars each analyzing the connections between religious narratives and the construction of regional and global politics, combining a set of theoretical and philosophic insights with several case studies that represent varied geographies and religious customs. The past decade has seen increasing interest in the links between religion and politics, and this edited volume seeks to take religion seriously as a motivator of action. Few studies have attempted to bring together the multi-disciplinary work in this burgeoning field of study and this work takes a global perspective, using a variety of contexts including East-West relations to analyze the following key themes: the constructive and destructive hermeneutics of religious stories the relevance and importance of religion as a dominant political narrative the rise of new stories among groups as agents of change the way that religious narratives help to define and constrain the Other the manipulation of religious stories for political benefit This work argues that it is insufficient to judge the relationship of religion and politics through mere institutional or quantitative lenses, and this collection proves that while this promise of the narrative part of the social imaginary has been recognized in political theory to a certain extent, its influence in the realm of empirical political science has yet to be fully considered. Combining the work of a wide range of experts, this collection will be of great interests to scholars of politics, philosophy, religious studies, and the literary influence of religion.
Author | : Abdulkader Tayob, Wolfram Weisse, Carel Aaron Anthonissen, Wolfram Weie |
Publisher | : Waxmann Verlag |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Apartheid |
ISBN | : 9783830963271 |
Author | : Claude H Mayer |
Publisher | : ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2005-03-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3838254317 |
This book offers far-reaching insights into perceptions of conflict in South Africa. Claude-Hélène Mayer’s approach is remarkable, because she imparts the recollections of numerous people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The author captures the essence of about one-hundred interviews reflecting disparate attitudes towards social changes in the post-apartheid Republic of South Africa. Unexpected statements – for example, with respect to the continued existence of internalized apartheid – are carefully analyzed and hermeneutically understood. At the beginning of the research, presumptions might have raised expectations for the similarity between the narrative interviews. However, it becomes clear during the reading of this work that each interview was itself unique and each created a unique situation between the interviewer and the interviewee, inviting the reader to listen again and again to the spoken and analyzed words. The thorough, months-long field stays, from 1999 until 2004, emphasize the researcher’s exhaustive effort better to understand the perspective of the interviewees. In addition to the book's research-related merits, its data can increase the cultural competence of those readers who are interested in information on specific predominant-cultural standards in present day South Africa. Readers can more fully appreciate how the people in South Africa live a special, dynamic form of their unmatched “unity in diversity.”
Author | : Inter-European Commission on Church and School, Sturla Sagberg, Gaynor Pollard, Peter Schreiner |
Publisher | : Waxmann Verlag |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Christian education |
ISBN | : 9783830966708 |
Author | : Chammah J. Kaunda |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2020-11-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1793630283 |
In African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions: Celebrating John Samuel Mbiti’s Contribution, contributorsexplore John Samuel Mbiti’s contributions to African scholarship and demonstrate how he broke through the western glass ceiling of scholarship and made African-informed and African-shaped scholarship a reality. Contributors examine the far-reaching implications of Mbiti’s scholarship, arguing that he shifted the contemporary African Christian landscape and informed global expressions of Christianity. African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions analyzes Mbiti’s scholarship and shows that his theories are malleable and fluid, allowing a new generation of scholars to reinterpret, reconstruct, and further develop his theories. This collection brings together contributors from a wide range of disciplines to study John Samuel Mbiti as the father of contemporary African theology and grapple with questions Africans face in the twenty-first century.
Author | : David Chidester |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1997-08-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0313032254 |
In a changing South Africa, recovering the meaning and power of African tradition is a matter of crucial importance. This work participates in that recovery by providing a comprehensive guide to research on the indigenous religious heritage of this dynamic country. Detailed reviews of over 600 books, articles, and theses are offered along with introductory essays and detailed annotations that define the field of study. This work plus two forthcoming volumes, Christianity in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography and Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography will become the standard reference work on South African religions. Scholars and students in Religious Studies, Social Anthropology, History, and African Studies will find this set particularly useful. This work organizes and annotates all the relevant literature on Khoisan, Xhosa, Zulu, Sotho-Tswana, Swazi, Tsonga, and Venda traditions. The annotations are concise yet detailed essays written in an engaging and accessible style and supported by an exhaustive index, which comprise a full and complex profile of African traditional religion in South Africa.